Hire James! He is a great, ambitious editor who sweats the details. He is also a compassionate newsroom leader who works to make writers feel supported and listened to.

'Forgotten, unheard, disbelieved, isolated' - some of the words used by people with secondary illnesses triggered by long Covid.

Liz Jackson has been speaking to people who have been largely suffering in silence.

Long COVID research risks losing momentum – we need a moonshot.

Investing US$1 billion every year for the next ten years into long COVID research could improve the lives of millions and save trillions in economic costs go.nature.com/46xqTRT

OK, so I may be biased, but I wholeheartedly agree with The Guardian today. Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack's excellent new Democracy for Sale substack isn't to be missed.

(Had some sneak previews of what's coming up next, too...)

Sign up here 👇democracyforsale.substack.com

NHL rookie of the year, second youngest captain in NHL history & Stanley Cup champion in 2010, 2013 & 2015 — has to stop playing because of #LongCovid

There's a tale & a half behind this story. But for now, I'm dedicating this to all the tech bros who told me - *still tell me* - that Cambridge Analytica was 'snake oil'.

Snake oil + hacking + black ops + a Russian spy...

With the great Stephanie Kirchgaessner
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…

Funny that after all those columns insisting that AI isn't anything to worry about because it can't be creative, the problem turns out to be that it's way too creative

Good roundup of Amazon’s current difficulties which includes this nugget. If “just walk out” shopping is so good, why isn’t it more widespread? on.ft.com/3lBv3WA

I read this book years ago and I still think about it all the time. A wonderful philosophical novel by one of the best writers working today

This is incredible

Microsoft is relaunching Bing powered by AI and using tech company OpenAI's ChatGPT

On the #Daily podcast, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's Rowland Manthorpe to explore what the AI chatbot can do, and computer scientist Jeff Dalton to discuss the change it may bring

🎧 Listen here 👇

Cool job alert

Telling that all the early access shots of Bing + ChatGPT are on desktop because there's no way this is going to work on mobile

New: LockBit has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack on U.K. postal giant Royal Mail, and is threatening to publish the stolen data in days. The ICO said it is investigating. tcrn.ch/3JPBwqO by @carlypage_

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